In the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Nationwide Children’s Hospital describe a new paradigm for treating transcription factor-driven cancers. The study focuses on Ewing sarcoma and how the EWS/FLI transcription factor drives the malignancy – and suggests ways to disrupt the process. Transcription factors are involved in the process...
Tag: <span>Cancer Treatment</span>
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New way to kill cancer is better than chemotherapy: Treatment will use a patient’s immune system to wipe out all of a tumour’s cells
Scientists say they have found a way to prompt the immune system into helping They found a protein which enables chemotherapy to kill tumour cells ‘silently’ The new form of chemotherapy acts as sort of red flag to the immune system The drug could be available to Britain’s 356,000 cancer patients within decade Scientists have new...
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Personalised cancer treatment
In Norway, more and more people are being affected by cancer of the mouth and throat. In recent years, the incidence has increased but the mortality has remained the same. Cisplatin is one of the most commonly administered cytostatics for this patient group. At the start of treatment, the drug works well. Gradually, though, most...
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Muscle growth finding may assist with cancer treatment
Dr Craig Harrison and Dr Kelly Walton from the Monash BDI. Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI) researchers have collaboratively developed a therapeutic approach that dramatically promotes the growth of muscle mass, which could potentially prevent muscle wasting in diseases including muscular dystrophy and cancer. The approach, jointly developed with Baker Heart and Diabetes...
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Promising cancer treatment targets rare genetic flaw
An experimental cancer medicine called larotrectinib has shown promise treating a diverse range of cancers in people young and old, researchers said at a major cancer conference in the United States. The treatment targets a genetic abnormality which is often found in rare cancers—including salivary gland cancer, juvenile breast cancer, and a soft tissue cancer known as infantile fibrosarcoma—which are...
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Chemical array draws out malignant cells to guide individualized cancer treatment
A chemical array screens for malignant melanoma cell types. Each dot contains a different combination of protein segments derived from the tumor environment. Melanoma is a particularly difficult cancer to treat once it has metastasized, spreading throughout the body. University of Illinois researchers are using chemistry to find the deadly, elusive malignant cells within...
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New molecules may offer treatment option for some aggressive prostate cancers
Micrograph showing prostatic acinar adenocarcinoma (the most common form of prostate cancer) Novel molecules called selective androgen receptor degraders (SARDs) may offer the next generation of treatment options for advanced prostate cancer, a new industry-sponsored study reports. The results of this research will be presented Saturday, April 1, at ENDO 2017, the 99th annual...
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Scientists discover mechanism that causes cancer cells to self-destruct
Many cancer patients struggle with the adverse effects of chemotherapy, still the most prescribed cancer treatment. For patients with pancreatic cancer and other aggressive cancers, the forecast is more grim: there is no known effective therapy. A new Tel Aviv University study published last month in Oncotargetdiscloses the role of three proteins in killing fast-duplicating cancer cells...
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A New Cancer Treatment Has Given Terminal Patients a Second Chance at Life
IN BRIEF Gene therapy has been shown in clinical trials to not just treat cancer, but possibly cure it. The treatments have risks — including death — so additional research is needed before they could become widely available. COULD THIS TREATMENT CURE CANCER? Despite the many advances in medicine over the last century, a cure...